The practice of revising movies and books reminds me of the work of the Ministry of Truth. The funny thing is that Orwell’s homeland is always spearheading this kind of evolution.
but I don't think anyone does read Orwell and is like "oh that's a good tool of manipulation"
because they have many more ways to find the same tools but in a context where it's packed into a "this is for (the grater,your,your peoples) good" package instead of a "this is a dystopia" package
It is exactly about this "this is for (the grater,your,your peoples) good" or rather it is about total control of the information space that indeed everyone thinks, whatever the party is doing is good.
No one is living in a dystopia there. They are living in the best of the best worlds. And everybody thinks and believes that.
It is an examination of power and control mechanism. Power over the mind of people.
I am still recovering from the religious "moral values" people who were insufferable as recently as a few years ago, and who have proven to be hypocrites on just shocking levels.
This movement of the "white, fluffy and righteous" is just taking their place.
I want to never be cruel or cowardly, but I know I will mess up sometimes, hopefully I will make amends, but I probably won't always. I don't think that is hypocrisy, just fallibility.
I wish, but hypocrisy is a weak criticism that's easy to escape except in the most clear cut cases, and in some cases is deemed as invalid.
Eg, some people's approach to morality is that people are intrinsically moral or immoral, not actions. This allows people to make statements that work out to something like "My friend may be a rapist, but he's a good person. He shouldn't be punished for a mistake". Moral goodness isn't gained through actions but through acquiring status in some way.
In that kind of worldview, hypocrisy is irrelevant. My friend is a good person because he lives in a good community and is well-off. That guy over there is a bad person because he lives in a slum and obviously deserves that.
Here in the United States, a certain political party all but appropriated Christianity for themselves, even though their own platform (or now lack of one) is the direct opposite of what the religion teaches.